Ooh. Given a bunch of spare time to practice with my Waterman 52V I think I could work out how to recreate that in handwritten form. Except for the flourishes (flourishes are hard on nibs so I would only do them with steel dip nibs, not the gold nibs like on the Waterman).
Have to admit I don't know how I feel about the "s"' dip below the baseline and the belly on the "n," "h" (and probably "m," too.)
Nice Spencerian approach to the crossbar on the lower-case t - that's how I do mine most everyday. Proof: http://mlkshk.com/p/IJL4
And the antigender approach is to simply leave it however when you are done. Perhaps "please put the seat down if you need it down"?
In our (mixed-gender) household the rule was always "do whatever you want with the seat". But we added cats who like to play in the water, and to deposit toys in the water, so that changed to "always put the lid down".
@tedder Boys can pee sitting down OR standing. Girls can only pee sitting down (without external apparatuses). By leaving the toilet seat up, you take a girl's choice away.
@maggie1000 nope. I don't take a girl's choice away. I put the responsibility on the sitter to decide if they want the seat down or not.
Think about it another way- if there was a toll on raising/lowering the seat, who does it benefit to require raising the seat when done? The person collecting the toll. Even with a mix of genders or nearly all of one gender, it would be "cheaper" to simply leave the seat how you used it.
@bug138 Same here, otherwise it becomes a doggie canteen. But failing that, I've always argued that, all else being equal, it takes far less effort to lower the seat when you need it down (a simple flick of the finger then gravity does all the work) than to raise it when you need it up (a full lift against gravity), so the truly courteous thing to do would be to put in the effort to raise the lid in advance of those who need it.
Have to admit I don't know how I feel about the "s"' dip below the baseline and the belly on the "n," "h" (and probably "m," too.)
Nice Spencerian approach to the crossbar on the lower-case t - that's how I do mine most everyday. Proof: http://mlkshk.com/p/IJL4
And the antigender approach is to simply leave it however when you are done. Perhaps "please put the seat down if you need it down"?
In our (mixed-gender) household the rule was always "do whatever you want with the seat". But we added cats who like to play in the water, and to deposit toys in the water, so that changed to "always put the lid down".
To which I say:
http://mlkshk.com/p/FEDD
Think about it another way- if there was a toll on raising/lowering the seat, who does it benefit to require raising the seat when done? The person collecting the toll. Even with a mix of genders or nearly all of one gender, it would be "cheaper" to simply leave the seat how you used it.
http://mlkshk.com/p/IJXI